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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...are quite bizarre. Let us take a small farmer on ten acres or 10 ha of poor land. We know what he has from the Department of agriculture, it is awfully easy to figure out. In some of the means-testing, say, for a carer's allowance at €900 per week, if they have only got €2,000 in grants, they are unlikely to have €50,000 or €10,000 of cattle to sell. They...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Apologies; I had to depart for a while. Ironically, the discussion in the Dáil currently is about the means testing of carer's allowance and the potential for a participation income. I have a few questions and some general observations. Previously, I made the point in the abstract that if one has a properly progressive system of taxation and one can look at it in terms of two lines,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...recent years but there is the example of the rent-a-room scheme. The way in which social welfare policy can be used to encourage particular social ends is an under-explored area. In talking about the carer's allowance and the participation income proposal from Family Carers Ireland, it occurs to me that there is a substantial discussion taking place in Britain on the social care crisis,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: .... I might return to Dr. Boland. He might have a comment if it was he who raised the point of this potentially being an instrument of social policy. Does he have a view on the point regarding carers? In the context of the care crisis that exists in other jurisdictions - and may exist here but we are not discussing it - is there an extent to which social welfare policy should be an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Dr. Tom Boland: It comes down to this question about UBI but on the question of carers, there is a broad feeling in favour of universal entitlements and automatic entitlements where possible and where they make sense. Certainly in the case of carers, where you can demonstrate that you have a caring duty, as Dr. Dukelow was explaining earlier, there is the idea of participation income. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

...more likely to feature in cases of derived rights to a payment or as a qualified adult. They may fail to access a payment because of household means-testing. This can be the case with regard to carer's allowance and jobseeker's allowance. I will now move on to broad recommendations. These trends provide a rationale for several changes that would improve the role of means-testing in...